Inspired by a comment from Benedikt Heinen, the TED Blog would like to know: How many people out there have set a goal to watch all the TEDTalks? In two weeks, we’re going to be celebrating 5 years of posting TEDTalks online. And if you’ve watched every TEDTalk — we want to celebrate that too. […]
“The risk-takers, the doers, the makers of things…” – in his inaugural address, President Obama emphasized the importance of “making” to society at large, something TED Fellows recognize and demonstrate in their everyday work across the globe. Here are just a few of the visionary makers among them. PulkitGaur, TEDIndia Fellow, roboticist, and founder of Gridbots, says: “ALIAS [an autonomous robot […]
Two weeks from now, on Monday, June 27, 2011, we’ll celebrate 5 years of posting TEDTalks online. Throughout the week, we’ll be celebrating. We’re rolling out some new features, sharing messages from the TED family, and taking a look back at 5 years on the web. And you’re invited to join in! Have TEDTalks made […]
We’re thrilled to announce the results of our Full Spectrum auditions — TED’s first-ever audition for the main stage of TED2012. Seventeen finalists gave short TEDTalks in the onstage auditions at New York’s Hiro Ballroom on May 24 (you can watch the archived video stream). An audience of 200 friends voted, using a ranking system […]
Via the TED Fellows blog: The TED Fellows Team is ecstatic to announce the remarkable individuals that comprise the 2011 TEDGlobal Fellowship class! This group of extraordinary people will join us at TEDGlobal 2011 in Edinburgh, UK. Among them you’ll find: an stellar astronomer; a Jordanian comic creator and social media entrepreneur; an artist who […]
Renowned paleontologist Jack Horner has spent his career trying to reconstruct a dinosaur. He’s found fossils with extraordinarily well-preserved blood vessels and soft tissues, but never intact DNA. So, in a new approach, he’s taking living descendants of the dinosaur (chickens) and genetically engineering them to reactivate ancestral traits — including teeth, tails, and even […]
You can watch all 12 sessions of TEDGlobal 2011 on webcast through our Associates webcast membership. The high-def video stream costs $500 for four days of amazement, and you can watch with (and split the cost among) up to 10 people. ($500 / 10 / 4 = $12.50 per day of mind-blowing live TED.) More […]
Yesterday, Twitter user @ademoor wrote: Thinking of organizing a #TEDtalk video night w/ some friends. What’s your absolute favorite must-see talk? Great question! We RT’ed on @TEDNews. And the replies are worth sharing: @WackyFiasco: I really appreciated Dan Gilbert’s talk on happiness … @ozteethtweet: hans rosling, can’t get enough, all the world’s problems explained with […]
The speaker lineup for TEDGlobal 2011 includes perhaps our highest-ever percentage of Twitter legends — use our curated list to find and follow!
On the morning of Tuesday, May 24, 2011, Zé Cláudio and his wife Maria were murdered in their home in Nova Ipixuna, Pará. Cláudio spoke at TEDxAmazonia about the forest where he lived, harvesting nuts from the ancient trees and protecting his land from illegal loggers. In his talk, he predicted that he would be […]
Physicists are used to the idea that subatomic particles behave according to the bizarre rules of quantum mechanics, completely different to human-scale objects. In a breakthrough experiment, Aaron O’Connell has blurred that distinction by creating an object that is visible to the unaided eye, but provably in two places at the same time. In this […]
Announcing the speaker lineup for TEDGlobal 2011 — happening July 11-15, 2011, in Edinburgh, and via webcast around the world. The 12 sessions of TEDGlobal expand on the overall conference theme, “The Stuff of Life,” with session titles such as “Bodies,” “Bad Guys,” “Coded Patterns” … TEDGlobal is hosted by Bruno Giussani, TED’s European Director, […]
Crossposted from the TED Fellows blog: We’re super excited to pair up with TED Fellow Perry Chen’s Kickstarter to launch the new TED Fellows Curated Page, dedicated to highlighting the Kickstarter projects of past and present TED Fellows. Check back often to see what the Fellows are up to and help spread the word so […]
We’ve received a lot of reports today from iPad users saying they have no audio when watching talks from the TED iPad app. In most cases, not only are talks silent, but there’s no volume slider showing in the full-screen controls. If you’re seeing this, it’s very likely that your iPad is muted. Depending on […]
The honor of kicking off the evening of TED Full Spectrum auditions fell to Jane Rigby, an astrophysicist at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center and deputy project scientist for operations for the James Webb Space Telescope (the planned successor to the Hubble Space Telescope). Together with fellow NASA astrophysicist Amber Straughn, she put together […]
Reggie Watts discourses on the nature of TED onstage at TED Full Spectrum Auditions. Credit: James Duncan Davidson. Watch the TED Full Spectrum Auditions archive video >> Seventeen Full Spectrum audition finalists presented their TEDTalks on Tuesday night at one of the swellest TED venues yet: the Hiro Ballroom in Manhattan (TED’s Corvida Raven shot […]